Within a whisker in Farringdon

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They were counting the votes overnight in one of the most fiercely contested elections in the City for years, for a common councilman for the Farringdon Within ward. In one corner, Bryn Phillips, the former Occupy St Paul’s spokesman; in the other, the marketing consultant Mark Clarke. There are two other candidates, and only one of the four can win.

I am told that the two enjoyed heated exchanges at the wardmote this week, which is where the candidates get together to debate — though I am not sure that is the right word. Clarke attacked Phillips as “not a fit

It is understandable that the construction of an air-polluting,
noise-blighting £22 billion third runway to turn Heathrow into the world’s
pre-eminent superhub caught the eye, but the Davies report into airport
expansion also made another radical suggestion: that — third runway or not —
Heathrow should start acting like the UK hub that it pretends to be